Religion
Two questions to help you decide your vote on the Minnesota Marriage Amendment
- If Pat and Chris want to form a business partnership in your home state, should their genders play any role in determining whether that partnership is legal?
- Should the government play any role in deciding the rules regarding religious ceremonies like christenings and bar mitzvahs?
Conservatives, take note: As University of Chicago economics professor Richard Thaler MORE »
THEATER | "My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding" by Minnesota Jewish Theatre: Unapologetically political, completely adorable
When you pick up a ticket for a play entitled My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding (currently in production at the Minnesota Jewish Theatre), you sort of know what you're signing up for as an audience member. However, when I first got the assignment to review the show, I didn't notice that it was also a musical. Or that the play started its life as a big hit in the Toronto Fringe Festival. My Mother's Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding is unapologetically political, and completely adorable.MORE »
SUNDAY PICK | Minneapolis Psychic Fair: Only $10 to find out whether the world's going to end
"Something interesting for everyone!" That seems, if anything, a modest claim in the subject of the press release for the Minneapolis Psychic Fair—insofar as it's hard to imagine anyone who doesn't have a stake in knowing whether or not the world is actually going to end on December 21. We're informed that psychic Maria Shaw "just returned from Mexico where she met with a Mayan gentlemen who gave her lots of information about the Mayan calendar and what's really going to happen." Shaw will be passing those secrets on, and will be available (for an additional fee) to provide to you—yes, you—the same quality spiritual guidance she's provided to Tony Danza, Jenny McCarthy, Larry the Cable Guy, and Anna Nicole Smith.
Apartments planned for church site, University Lutheran Chapel raising funds to fight relocation
Plans for another apartment building near the University of Minnesota are moving forward.
On Thursday, Doran Companies heard concerns from the Minneapolis City Planning Commission about its proposed five-story, 94-unit apartment building at 1101 University Ave., where the University Lutheran Chapel currently stands.MORE »
Why I don't quit the Catholic Church
Each time I express an irritation with the Catholic Church, a few friends will write, in assorted ways, "why not just leave?"MORE »
The Catholic Hierarchy goes to war…against me, a Catholic who happens to disagree with them
Today at Mass at Basilica came the expected Declaration of War (my interpretation) by the Catholic Hierarchy against the majority of us in the pews and not, who do not buy the promulgated line.MORE »
Minnesota rabbis oppose marriage amendment
On Nov. 6, Minnesota voters will be asked this question: “Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended to provide that only a union of one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in Minnesota?”MORE »
Whose conscience? Whose rights?
The Obama administration said this month that church-run hospitals, universities and charities, like other employers, must cover birth control in their health insurance plans, as an essential provision for women's health care. Despite the protests of the Catholic hierarchy, this decision is the right thing to do.MORE »
Minneapolis helps Muslim businesses follow Sharia law
In 2005, Afrik Grocery and Halal Meat on Cedar Avenue needed to expand. Owner Abdi Adem, who operates his business under Sharia law, needed to find a loan that funded the expansion and complied with his religious beliefs.
Finding the loan was easier than he expected.MORE »
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